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From: TJ Luoma <luomat@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: is there a way to use *.{txt,zip,tbz,dmg} if one or more might be missing?
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 19:27:00 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADjGqHvD+NwA3XxrG_OgJ06Zdi5frpVC6VCqKKZ1bWpHwtpshA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

This seems like one of those things that I might have not learned that
everyone else knows, so I thought I'd ask.

I can use this:

        mv -vn *.{txt,zip,tbz,dmg} ~/dir/

to move all files that end with zip/txt/tbz/dmg to ~/dir/

BUT it will fail if it does not find at least one file with each of
those extensions.

Is there a way to do basically the same thing, but tell `mv` "if is at
least one file with any of these extensions, then move to ~/dir/" ?

I suppose I could use `find` with various `-o` flags, but I was
wondering if there was an easier way.

Thanks!

Tj

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TJ Luoma
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Twitter: @tjluoma

             reply	other threads:[~2019-07-07 23:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-07 23:27 TJ Luoma [this message]
2019-07-08  0:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2019-07-08 10:44   ` Peter Stephenson
2019-07-08 12:14     ` Mikael Magnusson

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